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1 | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy eere.energy.gov
Buildings.energy.gov/SEED
ACEEE Summer Study
August 19, 2014
Planting SEEDs Implementation of a Common Platform for Building Performance Disclosure Program Data Management
Elena Alschuler, U.S. Department of Energy
Jayson Antonoff, Institute for Market Transformation
Rich Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Magnus Cheifetz, Building Energy
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New York City 2.5B
Washington, DC 357M
Boston 250M
Austin 113M
Chicago 900M
Seattle 295M
San Francisco 205M
Philadelphia 245M
Minneapolis 110M
Montgomery Co., MD 78M
Washington State 970M
California 6.1B
Building Performance Disclosure Regulations: 12.1B SF
Source: IMT
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Rapid increase in data about building performance
Building Use Information
Utility Data Tax Assessor Data
Audit Data
Contact Information
Retrocommissioning
Benchmarking Results
Mapping
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But Usability Is Lacking.
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SEED is designed to help!
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SEED is primarily designed to help State and local governments implement building performance reporting regulations for private and/or public buildings
In the future it could be used by large portfolio owners, energy efficiency programs, and energy efficiency service providers.
The Standard Energy Efficiency Data Platform
San Francisco
Seattle Austin
Washington D.C. New York City
Philadelphia
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How the SEED Platform works
SEED enables users to import data from multiple sources about the same group of buildings, and conduct analysis and reporting of the information.
The SEED platform is a blank database; each user has their own private copy.
The SEED platform utilizes a standard data format (BEDES).
The owner of each SEED instance can choose which external parties can access their information, and what records and fields to share.
An application programming interface (API) will enable third-parties to access the data, and offer add-on tools and services, in a replicable way.
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SEED V1 workflow
Export Data
Label Buildings
Create Projects
Merge datasets
Map fields
Import data
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Operational Information
Utility Data
SEED (Local or Cloud
Instance)
City/Organization Staff
Tax records
City/Organization Software Tools
Third-Party Apps & Tools
Audit Data Audit Tools
SEED Plug-ins (Add-on features)
Public
SEED Workflow in Action
Direct entry/upload Automated connection User access
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Value of SEED
A free, open-source, web-enabled software application that helps organizations easily aggregate, clean, track, and share data on the energy performance of large groups of buildings. • Reduces upfront cost of storing and managing data in a private, secure way
• Standard, vendor neutral, objective
• Addresses workflow management and relieves administrative burden
• Data cleansing process increases data quality and saves staff time
• Common format facilitates sharing and collaboration
• Enables development of third-party applications
But these tactical values serve a bigger goal for the market – to make data and systems interoperable
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Pilot Users: Matching Portfolio Manager Data
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Pilot Users: Drawing from Multiple Data Sources
• Portfolio Manager (annual downloads)
• Audit data
• Participation in utility programs
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Pilot Users: Improving Data Accuracy
• View data from multiple sources
• Minimize rekeying
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Pilot Users: Interagency Coordination
Owner
• Add new members
• Load/Delete data
• View Data
Member
• Load/Delete data
• View Data
Viewer
• View Data
Three Types of Users
SEED (Local or Cloud
Instance)
Other City/Organization
Staff
Third-Party Apps & Tools
Utilities
Help Center
County Tax Assessor
Office of Sustainability
Building Department
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Pilot Users: Compliance Activities
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Pilot Users: Driving Action
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Why Open Source?
• SEED was developed to support cities and others collecting whole-building energy data in using a consistent and interoperable data platform
• SEED is being developed as open source software to encourage market development of products that are flexible and meet different users’ needs, providing a range of options
• “Open source” means that anyone can contribute to the open source code base and create add-on proprietary extensions. This enables the growth of a market of providers that can offer hosting and add-on functionalities that can be utilized by all SEED users
• All products that use the same code base, using the SEED brand, will remain interoperable
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Quality Control Principles
• The SEED code base and brand will be closely managed to ensure high quality and interoperable software that meets the public interest
• The github site https://github.com/SEED-platform will be the only official version of SEED (code will be posted this month!)
• Interested parties are encouraged to contribute modifications and enhancements to the open source code base.
• Use of the SEED name will be managed as follows: – Products that open source core code as is, or add proprietary extensions
using the API, can use the SEED name in their product.
– Derivative works and customizations that modify the SEED code base (and do not contribute those modifications back to the project) are also encouraged, but the resulting products must say they are “based on SEED”
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Management Plan
• The transition of SEED to management outside of DOE is intended to ensure the long-term viability of the project and use by the market
• DOE plans to support the creation of an Open Source Community 501c3 in the upcoming year
• This entity will provide ongoing maintenance to the code base, update it to remain compatible with key public tools, curate contributions from developers, and identify and oversee development of other new features identified by the SEED community, support users, conduct outreach, etc.
• We invite your participation as we design and form the 501c3
• DOE will continue to support SEED, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) will provide oversight of the code, while the permanent management plan is established
20 | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy eere.energy.gov
Buildings.energy.gov/SEED
ACEEE Summer Study
August 19, 2014
Related Summer Study Presentations:
Enabling Interoperability Through a Common Language for Building Performance Data – Panel 6, Thurs at 8.30a
Getting Real With Energy Data – Using the BPD to Support Data-Driven Analyses and Decision Making – Panel 11, Fri at 8.30a
